On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:22:43 GMT, "John Smith"
wrote:

I have no idea if it is legal to shot a dog because he comes into your
garden, but I know I could never kill a dog for that reason. If a dog was
running free and crapping in my garden I would call animal control and have
the dog picked up. If the neighbor was being unreasonable and was not
honoring my request to keep his animal off of my property, I would file a
suit with small claims court.

I can't believe that two people in this small group, would advocate killing
a defense animal due to their neighbors neglect.

Yours and Don's statements say more about who you are, than anything I or
anyone else could say.

That's my point as well. There are many ways to deal with this
situation without becoming a knucklehead.

Being a good neighbor works both ways. I would certainly cross the guy
who kills my pet off of my Christmas list. It would be a damned shame
if he needed help with something and I suddenly became
unavailable.....

Dave